News &amp; Features - August 2010

Alyssa Neiberger poses with one her horses named Banjo as she holds the championship trophy and sash she won at the American Quarter Horse Youth World show on Aug. 4 in Oklahoma City while riding on her horse named Credits for Heaven.

Ten-year-old Anthony Hernandez, right, has his caricature drawn at Gretchen Norwalk's Life in Color booth Saturday during the Loveland Corn Roast Festival at Fairgrounds Park.

Loveland residents Kaden Butler, 8, left, and Jack Eberle, 8, play in the Big Thompson River as hundreds of rubber ducks float downstream after the first 100 winning ducks had been tallied for the Loveland Rotary Club's Duck Race on Saturday at Fairgrounds Park.

Peter Grahm of Loveland competes in the corn eating contest Saturday during the Loveland Corn Roast Festival on at Fairgrounds Park.

Aden Shaffer, 9, bites into an ear of corn during the corn eating contest Saturday as part of the Loveland Corn Roast Festival at Fairgrounds Park.

Roadwork continues Thursday on a stretch of Madison Avenue just north of Eisenhower Boulevard.

Nan Olson, right, and Eugene Noyes share a laugh with Mikayla Goodro, left, and Michael Moran while ordering ice cream Thursday at Penguins Ice Cream, 1518 N. Madison Ave. Nan said they like try go to Penguins several times a week, even though the road construction detours make access more difficult. She added, "It's his (Eugene's) favorite place so we have to find a way to deal with it."

Loveland resident Trajan Barrett, left, and Nate Davis of Fort Collins fish together Wednesday afternoon in Lake Loveland near North Lake Park. Davis said they were using fly rods to fish for carp and that they had caught and released several of them.